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With Apache Hadoop YARN as its architectural center, Apache Hadoop continues to attract new engines to run within the data platform, as organizations want to efficiently store their data in a single repository and interact with it in different ways. As YARN propels Hadoop’s emergence as a business-critical data platform, the enterprise requires more stringent […]

The architecture of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) matches the blueprint for Enterprise Apache Hadoop, with data management, data access, governance, operations and security. This post focuses on one of those core components: security. Specifically, we will focus on Apache Knox Gateway for securing access to the Hadoop REST APIs. Pseudo Federation Provider This blog will […]

With Apache Hadoop YARN as its architectural center, Apache Hadoop continues to attract new engines to run within the data platform, as organizations want to efficiently store their data in a single repository and interact with it for batch, interactive and real-time streaming use cases. More and more independent software vendors (ISVs) are developing applications […]

The Apache Knox Gateway team is pleased to announce Knox’s first release as an Apache top-level project: Apache Knox Gateway 0.4.0. The team resolved approximately 100 JIRAs for this release and Knox Gateway is now better positioned to provide complete security for REST API access to a Hadoop cluster. The new features in Knox Gateway 0.4.0 […]